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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: In terms of corporate tax, the issue is not so much our policy, which is clear, in terms of maintaining the rate but that in previous times the Administration did issue documentation suggesting we were a tax haven which it had subsequently to correct. The Taoiseach has contacts with the business community and with American companies. We have double taxation laws with many countries. We are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he held any bilaterals on his recent trip to America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45688/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I take it that as Ireland will hold the EU Presidency, the Taoiseach will be invited to participate in the G8 summit. Will the Taoiseach confirm that? Prime Minister Cameron's decision on the location of the summit is important and I welcome it. The positive relations between the US and Ireland are beneficial in an ongoing sense, taking in social culture and economic life in both nations....

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is in very bad form.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I have made no claims or allegations.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I was not at the Labour Party meeting. I asked the Taoiseach a simple question. I know that the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has come out to say he has confidence in the Minister for Health, but did he make those comments at the party meeting or not?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is the simple question I asked the Taoiseach, but he avoided answering it yet again, just as the Minister, Deputy Quinn, avoided answering it yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: He neither confirmed nor denied making those comments. We know that the Labour Party Deputies agree with opposition Deputies on the Minister for Health's performance, including all those whose home help hours have been cut, the debacle over primary care centres and the attack on people with disabilities. That is why Labour Deputies do not have confidence in the Minister for Health.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Many Fine Gael Deputies and Ministers do not either.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We are on the cusp of yet another major health Estimate that will wreak further damage on health services. I just want to ask this simple question: did the Minister, Deputy Quinn, confirm to the Taoiseach that he made those comments at the Labour Party Parliamentary Party meeting, "Yes" or "No"? Did the Taoiseach talk to him about it and did he confirm it?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: What does the Taoiseach mean by that?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Neither the Taoiseach nor the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has denied it, so it must be the truth.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: He said he cannot be seen to be looking for a head. That is dangerous for the Minister, Deputy Reilly.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We know where Deputy Buttimer's head is.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Where is the Labour Party?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that Cabinet collegiality is important in terms of the smooth running of Government and honesty between colleagues, in particular, is important. When Fianna Fáil tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, in September last we were conscious of anonymous leaks to the media from some of his Cabinet colleagues that they...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: and was quoted as stating: "We are going to have to do something about Reilly and soon. Clearly he is not up to the job of being Minister, and in my view he should go. He simply can't do his job, makes a hash of everything he [does]". The key intervention was made by the Minister, Deputy Quinn's, when he responded that "your sentiments are shared by your cabinet colleagues", but he then...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach meet the Minister, Deputy Quinn, and has he asked him to confirm or deny that he made those comments at the Labour Parliamentary Party about a ministerial colleague?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development (4 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has a role in the new Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49607/12]